Sita Sings the Blues

 

In spite of being a renovating musical on Indian culture, Sita Sings the Blues has nothing to do with Bollywood, the Indian version of industrial cinema. Rather, it's deeply rooted in the most radical and creative tradition of independent animation. After five years of craftily working on her computer, Nina Paley finally finished making this unipersonal animated film that owes a lot to the jazzy seduction of the Fleischer brothers' Betty Boop, as well as to the cinema of silhouettes by direct [...]

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